DISCOVERY OF A HIGHLY VARIABLE DIPPING ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCE IN M94

DISCOVERY OF A HIGHLY VARIABLE DIPPING ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCE IN M94

We report the discovery of a new ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) 2XMM J125048.6+410743 within the spiral galaxy M94. The source has been observed by ROSAT, Chandra, and XMM-Newton on several occasions, exhibiting as a highly variable persistent source or a recurrent transient with a flux variation...

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Main Authors: Lin, Dacheng, Irwin, Jimmy A., Webb, Natalie A., Barret, Didier, Remillard, Ronald A
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/94518

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